Just when you thought we’d stop at Celebrities, we now bring you (drum roll, please) Musicians!
xRankTM provides much more than just a way to track search trends — it’s much more than that — it’s a social commentary. With xRankTM Musicians we bring you the “mob’s view” on what’s shaking up the music industry.
Sure, you’ve got Top 40s, billboard charts, and album sales, but what&...
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With the recent update of the Product Search experience (http://search.live.com/products/), users can both research and find deals on products within Live Search. We’ve incorporated feedback from our users during the beta cycle and revamped the user experience, so now users can search and refine products by user opinions, brand, category, and price ranges. In addition, users can sort results by best user, expert rating, and price. Try it out...
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Those of you who search for stuff related to celebrities in your spare time raise your hands.
C’mon now, don’t be sheepish about it — we know the numbers, and we know you do it because we do it, too. Here’s a thought. What if we could rank who you and all other Live Searchers like to search for?
And then there was born a child unlike its siblings, a Live Search feature whose sole purpose was to be — gasp...
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When we were thinking about what searches we could improve on for this release, one thing we realized was that we actually were already getting a lot of searches right. A bunch of these were searches about a particular website you wanted. We returned the website, and you went there. Good times.
But you didn’t stay there. We did some research, and it turns out that after you made it to that page, you often tended to go to a few predictable...
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With the launch of the new browse experience for News (http://news.live.com/), we now bring you the most relevant stories of the day bucketed in categories, such as top stories, local news, and business. At the same time, the news team has revamped the news results page to incorporate many new features to improve your search experience. Add us to your homepage, try it out, and give us your feedback!
To highlight some of the features of our browse...
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In upcoming weeks some of us on the Live Search team will write about the changes we’ve made for this release across the Live Search family — from Web search through News, Video, and Products. As you put Live Search through its paces, let us know how it works for you. We’ll do our best to read all your comments and answer the most common questions.
We’re building more than a search engine.
The Live Search team
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Shortly after that day in March when we had to take the “link:” operator offline, a small team was formed in Redmond. Its singular focus: to build the next-generation set of tools, content and resources for SEO professionals and webmasters (and get “link:” back in your hands). Creatively named Webmaster Portal (we’re really good at marketing), it will be a single, friendly place to find all tools and information...
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For those of you attending the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, CA this week, drop by and check us out at one of these sessions:
Search Engine Q&A On Links – Day 3 at 4:45pm (8/22)Join Eytan Seidman, Lead Program Manager for the Live Search crawler, to answer your questions about links.
Meet the Crawlers – Day 4 at 10:45am (8/23)More fun with Eytan, here to answer your questions about how to submit and provide...
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We know you love searching for people with our image search engine—we’ve worked hard to make it easy and fun. Now we’ve made it even better. Today we shipped three new features that help you find faces, portraits and black and white images. Try these links to see them in action:
without the new features – jimi hendrix
with new face filtering on – jimi hendrix filter:face
with new portrait filtering on – jimi...
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Today we’re delighted to announce the availability of in-copyright book content in the Beta version of Live Search Books!
For hundreds of years books have been the repositories for the world’s most trusted, authoritative knowledge. But until recently, books have been invisible to the world’s search engines. Change is afoot! Starting today, you’ll find search query results from in-copyright books in Live Search Books. The...
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